Chapter 7 Review Questions

  1. What do Peter Berger and Ruth Benedict think about the effects of culture on human behavior?
  2. What did Burleson et al. learn about gender differences in giving comfort? 
  3. What is a social position? What is the difference between a position and a role?
  4. What are the four characteristics of roles?
  5. What did Paley observe about differences in the play of boys and girls?
  6. What is role rigidity?
  7. What is role conflict?
  8. What three sets of factors do McCall and Simmons believe determine whether we will choose a certain role or reject that role?
  9. What do Cooley's looking-glass self theory and Festinger's social comparison theory have to say about the effects of social support on role-identity?
  10. What is Bem's self-perception theory? What does it have to say about the extent to which commitment to a role determines its significance?
  11. In Goffman's view, what are humans like as they interact with one another?
  12. What is face? What is line? When we engage in face work, what do we do?
  13. How do setting and personal front help us put on a convincing social performance?
  14. Where do we go to escape our social roles and be "ourselves"'?
  15. What is role distance? How do interns in a hospital setting exhibit role distance?
  16. What is a role set? What characteristics must members of a role set exhibit?
  17. What is altercasting? What is mirroring?
  18. What do narrative theorists believe?
  19. According to Bruner, what is the relationship between personal identity and autobiographical narrative?
  20. What is a myth?
  21. What three things are necessary to be polite?
  22. How are empathic concern and perspective taking different?
  23. What is illustrated by the movie, Big Fish?
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